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[Reptile$ 4 Life]

That's interesting. Is the purpose of these studies to show that snakes have the intelligence to understand that following a visual cue eventually leads to a food reward in the end? Kinda like a mouse in a maze? I guess it's possible. And then what? What other tricks are they planning to teach these snakes and what are they hoping to learn? I guess I still don't understand the end goal but hope it's not to try and domesticate such magnificent creatures.

I don't think the point is to domesticate them but to learn how intelligent they actually are. There have been very few studies on reptile intelligence but the ones that have been completed have yielded so crazy results. They did an experiment with rattlesnakes hunting in 2002 and found that they will actually move things in their environment to help them hunt. There are a couple summaries of some studies here. http://www.reptilesmagazine.com/Six-...-Intelligence/